"Ample Play is truly a label of love, bringing you new rock in the great explorer's tradition of Elektra, Island and Apple."
David Fricke, Rolling Stone, USA

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The Sound Of The Ample Play Label

debut single out 11.11.13 on Ample Play.

A new young band from North East Wales, The Bluebottle Veins release their debut 5 track EP 'Raindrop Blues' on Ample Play Records on 11.11.13.  John Robb (Louder Than War) has them down as ‘the BEST young band in the UK right now.  Think Marc Bolan, Led Zeppelin or Beefheart, The Bluebottle Veins are part of something quite brilliant – a new rush of bands taking the electric blues and giving them a teenage rush…this band are really special.’  

The Bluebottle Veins 'Raindrop Blues'

The KVB 'Run Away' - ample play records

*** Order this album directly from the band at their own, independent store via http://store.cornershop.com/

“The UK’s most underrated band are back with a new album” 
Time Out (Feb 11)

“Cornershop & The Double ‘O’ Groove Of’ isn’t just great music; it fuses disparate cultures with such joyous irreverence that, for 40 inspirational minutes, entire notions of national borders and racial divides cease to exist”
4/5 Uncut (April)

“Handcream For A Generation and Judy Sucks A Lemon For Breakfast firmed up their credentials as one of Britain's more consistently smart indie bands…if the free taster track, “United Provinces Of India” is anything to go by, the final product will be well worth it.”
The Guardian, Pick of 2011 Music Preview


Cornershop ft Bubbley Kaur - Topknot

taken from 'All Unrevealed Parts of the Unknown' LP out 10/3/2014 on Ample Play.

Sudden Death Of Stars - 'Inside Out' - Ample Play Records

New York girl takes a walk to the country.  We at Ample Play are delighted to re-release Rachel Lipson's first album. http://bit.ly/zfXiDK

Rachel Lipson - 'Pastures' - ample play records

"What we have here, then, is an album of impossibly adorable disco - Star Wars.
Vive le boob tube revolution!"

8 out of 10 - NME

Clinton - 'Hip Hop Bricks' - ample play records

The Toes - 'Chrome Radio Rocks'  - ampleplay records

Jack Lesser Lewis' Awkward Energy - 'Whitey' - ampleplay records

The Sufis - 'Where Did She Go' - ample play records

   “It’s safe to say Singh and Ayres have lost none of their ability to surprise, & nowhere more so than in the Velvet’s-esque glare of the divine ‘Something Makes You Feel Like’." Drowned in Sound on 'Something Makes You Feel Like

The accompanying Beatles tracks Mean Mr Mustard/Polythene Pam & Love Me Too have only ever been available via Mojo magazine and we have been badgered, if you pardon the expression, to get them out for a while now.
Out digitally 5 November.

Cornershop ft SoKo - 'Something Makes You Feel Like' (Radio Edit 3.03) - ample play records

Four Parisians, who strike with the noisy pop spirit of contemporary U.S. music (from MGMT to Dum Dum Girls), and don't hide their mid-80s to mid-90s English influences, from Mary Chain to Stone Roses.

‘Breeezing!’ is the first single taken from their forthcoming album ‘Howls of Joy’.  Ample Play’s Tjinder Singh remembers, “I was in Paris during a heat wave - a friend took me to a little record shop in a small hilly street just North of Canal St Martin.   He asked the shop owner to play Beat Mark and I realized that I was listening to what England had lost the ability to create anymore, what’s more, it was a whole album of that stuff, an album of songs that immediately moves in with you.” 

Sean Bohrman from LA’s Burger Records ‘Breeezing! is the jam!’ and Josh Walker from Nashville’s legendary record shop Grimey’s: "I love ending the year with something like this to look forward to next year. I really can’t wait to get it in my hands."  Look forward to the hotly tipped album in mid February, but for now walk into the sun with ‘Breeezing!’ 


Pre-order the album

Beat Mark 'Breeezing!' - Ample Play Records

Matsuki Ayumu 'The Blues of The Solar System' - Ample Play Records

giving the wonderful 'Acetates' album a wider digital release via iTunes etc May 6th.

The Smoking Trees 'Persuaded Rendezvous' - ample play records

Cornershop 'Soul School'

4 young Belgians filed in the same catalogue as Tame Impala, Deerhunter, The Paperhead and The Sufis. Produced by Paul Butler (The Bees, Devendra Banhart & Michael Kiwanuka), who says:

'This band are on point, the concept of psychedelia rubbing together with glorious song craft was very appealing for us to work with.' 
Single out 6/05/2013


Bed Rugs 'Blinds' (Radio Edit) - ample play records

The Sudden Death of Stars. Think The Byrds, Fairport Convention, Velvet Underground, Spacemen 3, made in Brittany.

'I'll Be There' is an upbeat instant psychedelic dream of a track with cello, glockenspiel and vintage organs. It is even more uplifting when you find out it’s about a parent who’s passed away and speaks to their child ‘I’ll Be There’.



The Sudden Death of Stars 'I'll Be There' - ample play records (Radio Edit)

London, England. Ben Ayres & Tjinder Singh's own label. Come & join us for an independent take on music, music, music. Home of The Sufis, Cornershop, Sudden Death of Stars, Gloria, Matsuki Ayumu & The Smoking Trees, & The Masaki Hanakata and more. 

"Ample Play, masters at unearthing the world’s weird sounds” NME Magazine 

"Ample Play is truly a label of love, bringing you new rock in the great explorer's tradition of Elektra, Island and Apple." David Fricke, Rolling Stone, USA


Both Tjinder & Benedict are avid record collectors, who met when they both studied at Preston Polytechnic.  Tjinder became the Union Social Executive whilst Ben went to London to work in a vinyl record pressing plant.  As Cornershop took off and developed, so did the amount of Turbans they had to wear, and Ample Play Records is the culmination of all that work and experience, backed by freedom & enjoyment, with 'Music 10 Commandments'.